django email username and password

Question

I'm implementing a contact form for one of my sites. One thing I'm not sure I understand completely is why you need EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD.

The user would only need to provide his/her email address, so what is the EMAIL_HOST_USER referring to then and why would I need to specify an email and password?

EDIT: I'm using webfaction as my mail server

That's the username and password to connect to your outgoing mail server. — Michael Josephson, Sep 21 '16 at 16:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '16 at 01:41

You set EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT just for sending emails to your user.

Mail is sent using the SMTP host and port specified in the EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT settings. The EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD settings, if set, are used to authenticate to the SMTP server, and the EMAIL_USE_TLS and EMAIL_USE_SSL settings control whether a secure connection is used.

django email username and password

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